I get The Pool bulletins in my inbox every morning. Today I was in a bad mood before I'd finished my first cup of tea.
www.the-pool.com/beauty/beauty-honestly/2018/13/juno-dawson-on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-beauty?utm_source=today&utm_campaign=a7392b5b00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0522b4f78a-a7392b5b00-69698209&mc_cid=a7392b5b00&mc_eid=c50be11d85
clicky link
I can't quite put my finger on why it's so annoying. Perhaps because Dawson is trying to elicit sympathy at the fact that transwomen have to be attractive (or 'fuckable') to get on magazine covers (like women then) and simultaneously objecting to only being used by magazine editors to tick a diversity box and not because they're the best person for the job (ie. attractive.) Perhaps it's the passing token mention of black, Muslim and disabled women, when I'd say that disabled women in particular are far more woefully underrepresented in the media than transwomen (most notably in the New Suffragette feature in which Paris Lees was given a place.) Perhaps it's just the snippy tone.
I've read it through twice and I'm still not quite sure what its point is. Apart from flogging Dawson's book. At least that bit was clear.